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Reviewer Bob Crimeen has awarded Broadway Boogie the
honor of being number 1 in his best classical CDs of
2008 list in Melbourne's Herald-Sun. He says,
"Australia's own piano maestro makes modern classical music
arrestingly acceptable".

"Broadway Boogie is an assemblage of recent Australian piano
music selected for its allusions - sometimes extremely tenuous -
to New York. A major international centre of ideas and
creativity, this city maintains a galvanizing effect on
Australian intellectual life in a way that, say, Washington never
could. Andrew Ford's Broadway Boogie-Woogie finds
musical parallels to Mondrian's famous painting, the epitome of
non-symmetrical balance, and itself a paean to New York's
artistic diversity. Andrew Byrne, a resident of New York, has
written an unsentimental exploration of the surreal sounds of
chaos and succour after the destruction of the Twin Towers.
Byrne's mentor, John McCaughey, possibly the most self-effacing
and reluctant Australian composer, yet one of Australia's busiest
and most original musicians, gives us a glimpse into the
multi-layered nature of his thinking with Toccata de Nielico.
Nigel Westlake's brilliant (if brief!) follow-up to the
magnificent first sonata contrasts ethereal improvisations with
driving rhythms which would not sound out of place in downtown
Manhattan. Mark Pollard's homage to Euclid shows his fascination
with post-minimalism (a New York hallmark) and the re-emergence
of emotion, and finds fresh stimulus in the nostalgic language of
Chopin. My own sonata is offered in gratitude to Saxby Pridmore,
who in turn owes his inspiration to the great New York Stoic
psychologist Albert Ellis." - Michael Kieran
Harvey